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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all thing

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

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The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

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